burden-shifting jury instruction

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When the client starts falsely denying culpability about the specifics of his alleged offense to everyone in sight, this can open the door to a burden-shifting jury instruction know as the False Exculpatory Statements Instruction.

Explanation:In Spanish the standard expression for "shifting the burden of proof" is "inversión de la carga de la prueba" ("invertir la carga de la prueba"), rather than "reversión de la carga de la prueba" (revertir la carga de la prueba")

(71,400 hits in Google for "inversión de la carga de la prueba" vs. 155 for "reversión de la carga de la prueba"

"Inversión de la carga de la prueba" is the expression recorded in Thomas West, "Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business" and Alcaraz Varó-Hughes "Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos Inglés-Español"

Explanation:In Spanish the standard expression for "shifting the burden of proof" is "inversión de la carga de la prueba" ("invertir la carga de la prueba"), rather than "reversión de la carga de la prueba" (revertir la carga de la prueba")

(71,400 hits in Google for "inversión de la carga de la prueba" vs. 155 for "reversión de la carga de la prueba"

"Inversión de la carga de la prueba" is the expression recorded in Thomas West, "Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business" and Alcaraz Varó-Hughes "Diccionario de Términos Jurídicos Inglés-Español"